Steven B. Smith "Photographs of the suburban West" exhibit prints, 1995-2005

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Summary

Creator:
Smith, Steven B., Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies, and Archive of Documentary Arts (Duke University)
Abstract:
Collection contains twenty-six 16x20 inch black-and-white matted digital prints used in Smith's book, THE WEATHER AND A PLACE TO LIVE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SUBURBAN WEST, published by Duke University Press (2005). Subjects include tract housing in the West, construction sites, and other suburban landscapes that convey the impact of humans on the Western environment. His work received the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Collection also includes CD of artist talk given by Steven Smith at the 2005 exhibit opening, "Steven Smith: Photographs of the Suburban West." Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet (2 boxes, 1 CD-ROM, 26 prints)
Physical description:
27 prints; 1 CD-ROM
Language:
Materials are in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11196

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains twenty-six 16x20 inch matted black-and-white digital prints exhibited at Duke University and used in Smith's book, THE WEATHER AND A PLACE TO LIVE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SUBURBAN WEST, published by Duke University Press (2005). Subjects include tract housing in the West, construction sites, and other suburban landscapes that convey the impact of humans on the Western environment. His work received the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Collection also includes CD of artist talk given by Steven Smith at the 2005 exhibit opening, "Steven Smith: Photographs of the Suburban West." Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Biographical / historical:

Steven B. Smith is a photographer whose work chronicles the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia. For this work he was awarded the 2004 First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His book, The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West, was published by Duke University Press in 2005. He has received numerous grand and awards, including Guggenheim, Kittredge and RISCA fellowships. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Smith received a BFA from Utah State University and an MFA from Yale. He is a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2015, his second monograph, Waiting out the Latter Days, was published by TIS Press. [Source: Steven B. Smith website]

Acquisition information:
The Steven B. Smith "Photographs of the suburban West" exhibit prints were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2005.
Processing information:

Processed by Karen Glynn, November 2008; encoded by Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, April 2015

Accession(s) represented in this collection guide: 2008-0061; 2009-0249

Arrangement:

Prints are arranged in original order as received.

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[Identification of item], Steven B. Smith "Photographs of the suburban West" exhibit prints, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.